He has made media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. He has worked with such artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Anohni, Mika Tajima, and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as filmmaker-in-residence for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983. His most recent solo exhibitions include the past is here, the futures are coming (2018, The Kitchen, NYC), Scary, Scary, Community Fun, Death (2018, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich), and Illusion of Democracy (2017, MoMA, NYC). Recent large-scale video installations have been MC9 (2018, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), The Tyranny of Conciousness (2017) at The Venice Biennale, Cowboy Body (2016, The Contemporary, Austin), and The Waning of Justice (2015, Luhring Augustine, NYC). In 2017, following a residency at EMPAC, Atlas debuted Tesseract, a two-act work in collaboration with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener comprised of a 3D film and a live dance performance with video, which has since been shown domestically and internationally. Other significant live performance work includes The Kitchen Follies (2018), a multi-screen, multimedia variety show at The Kitchen that included the work of Jodi Melnick, DANCENOISE, Lady Bunny, among others. Atlas has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, the Foundation for Contemporary Artʼs Biennial John Cage Award (2006), and a 2016 United States Artists Gracie Fellowship.